Finally! Some great news commuters have been waiting for! Missouri and Illinois have finally reached an agreement enabling them to move forward with the plans to add another bridge across the Mississippi River.An official announcement (press conference with MoDot?) is evidently planned for Thursday.The sigh of relief is over the fact that we've had $$money$$ approved from Congress for like two years, and hadn't moved forward yet.As a reformed Illinoisan, I have spent many a long rush hour on the Poplar Street Bridge. Four Interstates converge on...
Monday, 25 February 2008
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Oh, yes, another CAD weblog is born...Blog is Dead, my foot (Chris Lindner at AU2006).A plug for my friend Steve, otherwise known as that Bug Watch guy or one of the CADLock guys: he has started a new blog! Blog Nauseam. Nice.AutoCAD, music, images and video make this a well-rounded site, check him o...
Well, with this announcement on Volker Joseph's 'Beyond the Paper' blog, I might finally be convinced to switch back to an Autodesk drawing viewer.Since VoloView Express (Autodesk's prior FREE dwg viewer) went the way of the dodo, our mechanics, supervisors and project managers needed a drawing viewer to see the systems prints on our server.All they needed to do was to open, print and measure within these files, but, of course, they didn't want to spend any money. We needed the bucks for more important things like chillers, etc.I ended up selecting...
Monday, 18 February 2008
February 17th through 23rd, 2008 is National Engineer's Week!And, a special note is that February 21st is 'Introduce a Girl to Engineering' day!Check out these links to find resources and ideas of how you can participate.Sometimes I worry that Engineering and other technical design fields have an image problem. Students contemplating different careers think of engineering as 'too hard' or 'too nerdy' or as needing too much science or math. Most folks that I talk to in the industry have a parent, grandparent or other close relative in Engineering.So,...
Wednesday, 13 February 2008
Alright, it's getting to be that time again. New AutoCAD time.I have been lucky enough to get to work again for the lovely and talented Ellen Finkelstein on her AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT 2009 Bible, so be sure to keep an eye on her store and check it out if you need a wonderful reference.Alright... let's just get this out of the way...OH MY FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER!There's a new interface!Right. Now that that's out of our system. We don't have to be...
Saturday, 9 February 2008
Well, I will confess that I'm not the biggest fan of Monster. You sign up for those job notifications, and, in my experience at least, they rarely match up with my skills or my industry at all.BUT, each job search service has it's strengths and weakness, and I will declare, I do love networking events, and Monster is hosting another job fair on February 25th. It will be at the Marriott by Lambert Airport.Monster also has many articles with advice on how to make your resume and yourself look good and make the desired impression. Follow the links...
Registration is open for an upcoming webcast: Facilities Management Meets Building Information Modeling (BIM)It's being presented by Avatech and is described as, "see how using Autodesk® FM Desktop™ and Autodesk® Revit® together will help you better manage your facilities in today’s BIM focused world. We’ll cover how to: Bridge the communication gaps between design, build, and operation management phases using DWF technology Fulfill GSA requirements regarding PBS CAD Standards Make informed decisions and stop “piece-mealing” disparate building...
Thursday, 7 February 2008
You guys know how much I love my System Variables (sysvar's), which is almost as much as I love my Express Tools (or, as I so dorkily refer to them, AutoCAD Express Cool!)SO, I just had to share an article Shaan Hurley wrote over on his blog walking you through the SysVar Editor.AutoCAD Express Tool System Variable Editor SYSVDLG Have you ever wanted to read about a system variables current settings without going to the online Help or how...
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